STATE OF THE SECTOR REPORT
COUNTRY-LEVEL PRACTICE & LEARNING RELATED TO MARKET
SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
REPORT NO. 1
APRIL, 2014
This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared
by EcoVentures International for ACDI/VOCA with funding from USAID/MPEP’s Leveraging Economic Oppor-
tunity (LEO) project.
STATE OF THE SECTOR REPORT
COUNTRY-LEVEL PRACTICE & LEARNING RELATED TO MARKET
SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
REPORT NO. 1
DISCLAIMER
The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for In-
ternational Development or the United States Government.
STATE OF THE SECTOR REPORT
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS: AFRICA 9
COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS: ASIA & NEAR EAST 28
COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS: LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN 35
COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS: EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIA 39
COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS: GLOBAL 42
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INTRODUCTION This report considers the state of the sector as it
relates to market systems strengthening, Making
Markets Work for the Poor (M4P), value chain
development and enterprise development. These
terms are often used interchangeably or at least
exhibit significant cross cutting areas to be
grouped together for the purposes of this report.
The report considers both learning networks in
each region and key donor-funded projects in
each region.
LEARNING NETWORKS The following is a list of existing learning net-
works for donors and their implementing part-
ners that self-identify as being organized around
the technical area of market systems develop-
ment, value chain development, enterprise devel-
opment, or M4P.
These are all presented in more detail under the relevant geographical area later in the report. Each learning
network is discussed in terms of its key characteristics: Who are the primary members/stakeholders? What
are their primary roles and services? What are opportunities to strengthen the network’s capacity and improve
growth and/or effectiveness? What, if any, are unique features of the network (in terms of structure, activi-
ties, objectives, etc.)? How is success of the network measured?
The most mature networks include the Market Development Forum (MDF) in Bangladesh, COPEME in
Peru, and the Business Development Services Donor Coordination Group (BDCG) in Kenya.
Table 1: Key Learning Networks by Region
Region Key Learning Networks
Africa Business Development Services Donor Coordination Group (BDCG) (Kenya)
Business Action for Africa (SSA)
Market Development East Africa (MDEA)
Asia Market Development Forum (Bangladesh)
ACCESS India’s Livelihoods Forum (India)
Making Markets Work for the Poor Network (India)
Market Development Forum (Nepal)
Nepal Market Development Practitioners Forum (Nepal) GTZ Assets for Asia
Latin America
& Caribbean ASOCAM (Latin America)
COPEME (Peru)
LEVERAGING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) is a
three-year contract to support programming that fos-
ters inclusive growth through markets. Building on
USAID’s value chain approach, LEO focuses on:
(1) a systems approach to markets, acknowledging
the complex interrelationships among market actors,
market and household systems, climate change, nutri-
tion, the policy environment, and sociocultural fac-
tors, including poverty and gender; and
(2) inclusion, recognizing the role that a spectrum of
actors—from resource-poor households and small-
scale enterprises to larger and more formal firms—
play in catalyzing market change and growth that ben-
efits the poor
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Global Business Action for Africa (BAA)
Business Call to Action (BCtA)
Business Fights Poverty (BFP)
Donor Committee on Enterprise Development (DCED)
Market Systems Development Platform (working title)
Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI)
SDC Employment and Income Network
LEARNING PROJECTS The following is a list of key donor-funded projects in each country that focus directly on learning as it relates
to the technical area of market systems development, value chain development, enterprise development, or
M4P. Each of these projects is presented in more detail under the relevant geographical area later in the re-
port.
Table 2: Key Learning Projects by Region
Region Key Learning Projects
Africa Agriculture Knowledge, Learning and Documentation Project (AKLDP) (Ethiopia)
Resilience Learning Project (Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, sub-Saharan Africa)
Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning Program (or the Learning Contract) (Uganda)
Sahel Resilience Learning Project (SAREL Project) (Niger and Burkina Faso)
Global Enabling Agricultural Trade (EAT)
Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
TECHNICAL PROJECTS The following is a list of key donor-funded projects in each country related specifically to the technical area of
market systems development, value chain development, enterprise development, or M4P. Each of these pro-
jects is presented in more detail under their relevant geographical area later in the report.
Table 3: Key Technical Projects by Region and Country
Region Country Key Technical Projects
Africa Ethiopia Agricultural Growth Program—Livestock Market Development (AGP-LMD)
Agricultural Growth Program—Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-AMDe)
Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME)
Ghana Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement II (ADVANCE II)
Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement I (ADVANCE I) - completed
Kenya Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust Kenya
Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises (KAVES)
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Market Assistance Programme (MAP II)
Resilience and Economic Growth in the Arid Lands–Accelerated Growth (REGAL-AG)
Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project (KHCP) - completed
Liberia Food and Enterprise Development (FED)
Grow Liberia
Malawi Multi-Donor Financial Sector Deepening Trust (MFSDT)
Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC)
Mali Cereal Value Chain (CVC)
Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM) - completed
Mozambique InovAgro
Nigeria Growth and Employment in States (GEMS1) – Meat and Leather
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS2) – Construction and Real Estate
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS3) – Support for Improved Business Regulations
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS4) – Wholesale and Retail Trade
Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (Markets II)
Propcom Mai-karfi
Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Better Business Environment (ENABLE) - completed
Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Markets (PrOpCom) - completed
Rwanda Renewable Energy and Adaptive Climate Technologies (REACT)
Senegal Economic Growth Project (PCE) - completed
Sierra Leone Market Development Programme
South Sudan Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM)
Tanzania Coastal Rural Support Programme
Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania
Rural Livelihoods Development Programme (RLDP)
Tanzania Staples (NAFAKA)
Business Environment Strengthening for Tanzania – Advocacy Com-ponent
Cluster Competitiveness Programme - completed
Cotton Sector Development Programme - completed
Uganda Enabling Environment for Agriculture
Northern Karamoja Growth Health and Governance (GHG)
Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity
Feed the Future Commodity Production and Marketing Activity
Uganda Financial Services Inclusion Programme
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Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural Development (LEAD) – completed
Revitalizing Agricultural Incomes and New Markets (RAIN)
Zambia Making Agricultural Markets Work for Zambia
Mawa
Production, Finance and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+)
Production, Finance and Improved Technology (PROFIT) - completed
Asia &
Near East
Bangladesh Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Program
Agro-Inputs Program (AIP)
Katalyst Phase III
Making Markets Work for the Chars (M4C)
Agro Forestry Improvement Partnership (AFIP) - completed
Katalyst Phase II - completed
Samriddhi - completed
Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project (SDVC) - completed
Cambodia Cambodia Agricultural Value Chains (CAVAC) Program
Helping Address Rural Vulnerabilities and Ecosystem Stability (Har-vest)
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Strengthening 1 and 2 Project (MSME 1 and 2) - completed
Nepal Promoting Climate Resilient Agriculture Nepal
Rural Access Programme
SAMARTH-Nepal Market Development Programme
Market Access for Smallholder Farmers (MASF) - completed
Pakistan USAID Agribusiness Project (UAP)
Latin
America &
Caribbean
Multi-country COMPETE Caribbean IDB
Guatemala Rural Value Chain Program – Horticulture
Rural Value Chain Program – Coffee
Haiti AVANSE or Feed the Future North (FTFN)
Local Enterprise and Value Chain Enhancement (LEVE)
Honduras ACCESO
Rural Economic Diversification (RED) - completed
Eastern
Europe &
Eurasia
Armenia Markets for Meghri (M4M) Phase II
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
Market Makers / Making Markets Work for the New Generation (MMW4NG)
Georgia Market Opportunities for Livelihood Improvement (MOLI)
Kosovo Enhancing Youth Employment (EYE)
New Opportunities for Agriculture (NOA)
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The following table summarizes the key technical projects by donor in each country.
Table 5: Key Technical Projects by Donor
USAID Country Key Technical Projects
Africa Ethiopia Agricultural Growth Program—Livestock Market Development (AGP-LMD)
Agricultural Growth Program—Agribusiness and Market Develop-ment (AGP-AMDe)
Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME)
Ghana Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement II (ADVANCE II)
Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement I (ADVANCE I) - completed
Kenya Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises (KAVES)
Resilience and Economic Growth in the Arid Lands–Accelerated Growth (REGAL-AG)
Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project (KHCP) - completed
Liberia Food and Enterprise Development (FED)
Malawi Multi-Donor Financial Sector Deepening Trust (MFSDT) - co-funded with World Bank and DfID
Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC)
Mali Cereal Value Chain (CVC)
Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM) - com-pleted
Nigeria Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (Markets II)
Senegal Economic Growth Project (PCE) - completed
South Sudan Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM)
Tanzania Tanzania Staples (NAFAKA)
Uganda Enabling Environment for Agriculture
Northern Karamoja Growth Health and Governance (GHG)
Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity
Feed the Future Commodity Production and Marketing Activity
Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural Development (LEAD) – completed
Zambia Mawa
Production, Finance and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+)
Production, Finance and Improved Technology (PROFIT) - completed
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Asia & Near
East
Bangladesh Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Program
Agro-Inputs Program (AIP)
Cambodia Helping Address Rural Vulnerabilities and Ecosystem Stability (Har-vest)
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Strengthening 1 and 2 Project (MSME 1 and 2) - completed
Pakistan USAID Agribusiness Project (UAP)
Latin
America &
Caribbean
Guatemala Rural Value Chain Program – Horticulture
Rural Value Chain Program – Coffee
Haiti AVANSE or Feed the Future North (FTFN)
Local Enterprise and Value Chain Enhancement (LEVE)
Honduras ACCESO
Rural Economic Diversification (RED) - completed
Eastern
Europe &
Eurasia
Kosovo Enhancing Youth Employment (EYE)
New Opportunities for Agriculture (NOA)
USDA Country Key Technical Projects
Africa Uganda Revitalizing Agricultural Incomes and New Markets (RAIN)
DfID Country Key Technical Projects
Africa Kenya Market Assistance Programme (MAP)
Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust Kenya (co-funded with SIDA)
Malawi Multi-Donor Financial Sector Deepening Trust (MFSDT) - co-funded with World Bank and DfID
Nigeria Propcom Mai-karfi
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS1) – Meat and Leather
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS2) – Construction and Real Estate
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS3) – Support for Im-proved Business Regulations
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS4) – Wholesale and Retail Trade
Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Better Business Environment (ENABLE) - completed
Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Mar-kets (PrOpCom) - completed
Rwanda Renewable Energy and Adaptive Climate Technologies (REACT)
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Market Development Programme
Tanzania Coastal Rural Support Programme (co-funded with SIDA)
Cotton Sector Development Programme
Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania (co-funded with SIDA)
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Business Environment Strengthening for Tanzania – Advocacy Component (co-funded with SIDA) - completed
Cluster Competitiveness Programme - completed
Uganda Uganda Financial Services Inclusion Programme
Asia & Near
East
Bangladesh Katalyst Phase III (co-funded with SDC)
Katalyst Phase II (co-funded with SDC) - completed
Nepal Rural Access Programme
SAMARTH-Nepal Market Development Programme
Market Access for Smallholder Farmers (MASF) - completed
Latin
America &
Caribbean
Multi-
country
COMPETE Caribbean (co-funded with IDB, and the Foreign Af-fairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD))
SIDA Country Key Technical Projects
Africa Kenya Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust Kenya (co-funded with DfID)
Liberia Grow Liberia
Tanzania Coastal Rural Support Programme (co-funded with DfID)
Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania (co-funded with DfID)
Business Environment Strengthening for Tanzania – Advocacy Component (co-funded with DfID) - completed
Zambia Making Agricultural Markets Work for Zambia
Asia & Near
East
Nepal Promoting Climate Resilient Agriculture Nepal
SDC Country Key Technical Projects
Africa Mozam-
bique
InovAgro
Tanzania Rural Livelihoods Development Programme (RLDP)
Asia & Near
East
Bangladesh Agro Forestry Improvement Partnership (AFIP)
Katalyst Phase III (co-funded with DfID)
Making Markets Work for the Chars (M4C)
Katalyst Phase II (co-funded with DfID) – completed
Samriddhi - completed
Eastern
Europe &
Eurasia
Armenia Markets for Meghri (M4M) Phase II
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
Market Makers / Making Markets Work for the New Generation (MMW4NG)
Georgia Market Opportunities for Livelihood Improvement (MOLI)
Kosovo Enhancing Youth Employment (EYE)
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AusAID Country Key Technical Projects
Asia & Near
East
Cambodia Cambodia Agricultural Value Chains (CAVAC) Program
Bill &
Melinda
Gates
Foundation
Country Key Technical Projects
Asia & Near
East
Bangladesh Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project (SDVC) - completed
Inter-Ameri-
can Develop-
ment Bank
Country Key Technical Projects
Latin
America &
Caribbean
Multi-
country
COMPETE Caribbean (co-funded with DfID, and the Foreign Af-fairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD))
World Bank Country Key Technical Projects
Africa Malawi Multi-Donor Financial Sector Deepening Trust (MFSDT) (co-funded with USAID and DfID)
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COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS:
AFRICA
MULTI-COUNTRY KEY LEARNING PROJECTS Project name: Resilience Learning Project
Donor: USAID East Africa
Primary implementer: Not yet awarded
Funding: USD 10 million
Country/region: Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya)
Dates: 2014 – 2018
Brief: The project aims to break the cycle of droughts and humanitarian emergencies in
the Horn of Africa (including Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia) by improving drought
resilience policy and programming within USAID, USAID regional projects, na-
tional partners and regional partners (such as IGAD and its member states). This
will be done by enhancing mutual learning and knowledge management activities
on resiliency through such activities as peer learning networks; resiliency innova-
tion dissemination; knowledge management institutional capacity building; devel-
oping/testing/documenting humanitarian and development models; synthesizing
evaluations and conducting meta evaluations; addressing gender-resiliency issues.
Project name: Sahel Resilience Learning Project (SAREL Project)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: Not yet awarded
Funding: Approximately USD 11.5 million
Country/region: Focus on Niger and Burkina Faso
Dates: 2014 – 2018
Brief: The purpose of Sahel Resilience Learning Project (SAREL) is to provide monitor-
ing, evaluation, collaboration and learning support to USAID resilience program-
ming in the Sahel. SAREL’s emphasis on shared learning and joint action will sup-
port the stated objectives of African governments, development partners, and
USAID – to harmonize efforts, integrate investments and engage in new ap-
proaches. This requires (1) expanding and accelerating the adoption of resilience-
enhancing technologies and innovations already underway; (2) developing, testing
and catalyzing widespread adoption of new models that integrate humanitarian and
development assistance; (3) promoting ownership, building the capacity of national
and regional institutions, and coordinating humanitarian and development inter-
ventions in the zone of intervention; (4) addressing Gender Issues Key to Resili-
ence and Growth; and (5) conducting baseline assessment and impact evaluation
for REGIS-ER and REGIS-AG. To this end, SAREL will base its approach on
USAID’s Collaborative, Learning and Adaptation (CLA) model.
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ETHIOPIA KEY LEARNING PROJECTS Project name: Agriculture Knowledge, Learning and Documentation Project (AKLDP)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: Tufts University
Funding: USD 8.5 million
Country/region: Ethiopia
Dates: 2014 – 2018
Brief: The purpose of the Agricultural Knowledge, Learning, Documentation and Policy
(AKLDP) program is to help advance rural development in Ethiopia. AKLDP will
support evidence-gathering from a wide range of agriculture, livestock, nutrition
and food security projects as part of USAID’s Feed the Future initiative. Working
with the Government of Ethiopia, aid donors, USAID and local universities and
research institutes, the AKLDP will conduct real-time analyses, evaluations and
reviews and provide coordination support. The evidence will be used to guide im-
provements to programming and to support development policies and strategies,
particularly those geared towards assisting poorer households to benefit from vari-
ous agricultural growth programs.
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Agricultural Growth Program – Livestock Market Development (AGP-
LMD)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: CNFA
Funding: USD 35 million
Country/region: Ethiopia
Dates: 2012 - 2017
Value chains: Meat/live animals, dairy, hides and skins
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The goal of the Agricultural Growth Program-Livestock Market Development
(AGP-LMD) is “to end poverty and enhance growth” which aligns with Feed the
Future’s goal to “sustainably reduce poverty and hunger.” AGP-LMD follows a
holistic value chain development approach and is developing the capacity of value
chain businesses. Its operations take place in highly-productive highland “woredas"
of Ethiopia that have the largest livestock populations with large number of small-
holder producers. The vision of the program is to create a vibrant and competitive
livestock industry driven and built on public and private investment that generates
employment and income for smallholder families and provides affordable, high-
quality, nutritious livestock products for consumers, particularly vulnerable house-
holds.
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Project name: Agricultural Growth Program - Agribusiness and Market Development
(AGP-AMDe)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: USD 49 million
Country/region: Ethiopia
Dates: 2011 - 2016
Value chains: Sesame, chickpeas, wheat, maize, coffee, honey
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The Agricultural Growth Program – Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-
AMDe) program uses a value chain approach to strengthen the agriculture sector,
enhance access to finance and stimulate innovation and private sector investment
in Ethiopia. Through the target value chains of wheat, maize, sesame, chickpeas,
coffee and honey, AGP-AMDe is increasing supply and quality of target commodi-
ties to meet international and domestic market demand through improved inputs,
effective post-harvest handling and storage facilities and expanded value addition
through agro-processing and market linkages. The program also works with SMEs
and investors to increase equity investments in SMEs and is addressing selected
policy constraints, such as promoting competitive input distribution system, based
on requests for support from government agencies as well as working to effectively
improve overall understanding of diet diversity.
Project name: Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Mercy Corps
Funding: USD 57 million
Country/Region: Ethiopia
Dates: 2013 - 2018
Value chains: Livestock
Approach: Market systems development approach
Brief: The Pastoralists Areas Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME)
project aims to increase household incomes and improve the resiliency and adap-
tive capacity of pastoral communities to climate change through market expansion.
PRIME implements in the selected districts (woredas) of Somali, Afar and Oromia
Regions targeting 250,000 households as direct beneficiaries. PRIME’s overall goal
is to reduce hunger and poverty. The project objective is to increase household in-
comes and enhance resilience to climate change through market linkages. The de-
sign and implementation of the project is based on the interaction between ‘climate
change, pastoralism/livestock and chronic vulnerability’ The attainment of these
objectives is through a multiple approach; (a) fostering the growth and competi-
tiveness of livestock value chains; (b) addressing the needs of the very poor and
chronically food insecure households through reaching down to this population
through value chain interventions and addressing their needs through interven-
tions; (c) improving the policy environment through a continuous evaluation and
learning process through collaboration and linkages.
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GHANA
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement I (ADVANCE I)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: USD 32 million
Country/region: Ghana
Dates: 2009 - 2014
Value chains: Maize, soy, rice
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The goal of ADVANCE was to facilitate a transformation of Ghana’s agricultural
sector in selected agricultural staples (maize, rice and soybean) to achieve a greater
degree of food security among the rural population in the North while increasing
competitiveness in the domestic markets. The program adopted a value chain ap-
proach where smallholder farmers were linked to markets, finance, inputs and
equipment services and information through relatively larger nucleus (commercial)
farmers and large traders (aggregators) who have the capacity to invest in these
chains. The program built the capacity of smallholder farmers to increase the effi-
ciency of their farm business with improved production and post-harvest handling
practices that included improved seed varieties and access to quality inputs, mecha-
nization services and market access. ADVANCE collaborated at the national, re-
gional and district levels with Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture in plan-
ning and implementing Ghana’s Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment
Plan. It also worked with medium and large-scale agro-processors, farmer-based
organizations, financial institutions, and input suppliers to develop the targeted
value chains in a sustainable manner.
Project name: Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement II (ADVANCE
II)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: USD 35 million
Country/region: Northern Ghana
Dates: 2014 – 2019
Value chains: Maize, rice, soya
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: ADVANCE II aims to increase per capita household expenditures by 30 percent
for 100,000 smallholder farmers through a strategic framework that strengthens
incentives for investment; builds local capacity; and broadens and catalyzes rela-
tionships to increase agricultural productivity, expand access to markets and trade,
and improve the enabling environment. Through a facilitation approach,
ADVANCE II will ensure that private sector actors remain the drivers of change,
while the government of Ghana and local stakeholders are empowered to lead as
facilitators through enhanced capacity building and learning.
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KENYA
KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: Business Development Services Donor Coordination Group (BDCG)
Overview: The BDCG Kenya is a network of practitioners and donors that are managing large
multi-year projects in Kenya, including enterprise and market development pro-
grams funded by bilateral donors such as DFID/UK, USAID, Danida, EU, GIZ
and multilaterals such as the World Bank. The main objective is to enhance the ca-
pacity of value chain stakeholders managing and coordinating market development
programs in the region and at the same time, enhance the pool of experts knowl-
edgeable in value chain analysis and promotion. The activities include the organiza-
tion of an annual conference for the region, meetings to promote sharing on market
and value chain development with participation from key government officials, and
working on developing a pool of local experts by conducting specialized trainings
and Training of Trainers.
Managed by: Secretariat: Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust (MESPT)
Network: Market Development East Africa (MDEA)
Managed by: Kenya Markets Trust (KMT)
Funded by: Founded through DfID’s Market Assistance Programme implemented by Adam
Smith International (ASI)
Date founded: 2013
Members: Practitioners and donors
Websites: Online discussion group: Linked In (93 members as of Dec 2013)
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust Kenya
Donor: DFID, Sida, World Bank, Government of Kenya, Bill and Melinda Gates Founda-
tion, & Agence Francaise de Developpment
Country/Region: Kenya
Dates: 2005 – 2015
Brief: The Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust was established in 2005 to support the
development of financial markets in Kenya as a means to stimulate wealth creation
and reduce poverty. FSD aims to develop the capacity of the financial services in-
dustry, working directly with a diverse range of financial institutions, business ser-
vice providers, and support institutions.
Project name: Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises (KAVES)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Fintrac
Funding: USD 40 million
Country/region: Kenya
Dates: 2013 – 2017
Value chain: Maize, dairy, horticulture, dryland staple crops
Approach: Value chain development approach
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Brief: The KAVES project promotes value chain growth and diversification, increases the
productivity and incomes of smallholder farmers and other actors along the value
chain working in the dairy, maize and other staples and horticulture sectors. The
project will work with more than 30 Kenyan government and private sector organi-
zations. The project develops smallholder enterprises that combine maize, high
value horticultural crops, and dairy farming to generate wealth, thereby enhancing
food security, improving nutrition, and increasing economic opportunities for
women, youth and other vulnerable populations. Engagement with the private sec-
tor in a meaningful, comprehensive way will ensure the sustainability of the project’s
work.
Project name: Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project (KHCP)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Fintrac
Funding: USD 32.5 million
Country/region: Kenya
Dates: 2008 – 2013
Value chain: Horticulture
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project (KHCP) is improving food secu-
rity and nutrition and raising incomes for over 200,000 smallholder farmers. KHCP
is helping farmers to grow more and better quality fruits, vegetables, and flowers,
with a special focus on strengthening the value chains related to eight crops: Sweet
potato, Irish potato, passion fruit, mango, banana, tomato, cabbage, peas and beans.
The Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project is also expanding the processing
of horticultural produce, linking small-scale farmers with local and export markets,
and improving the overall agricultural policy environment.
Project name: Market Assistance Programme (MAP II)
Donor: DFID, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, and Gatsby Charitable Foun-
dation
Primary implementer: Adam Smith International (ASI) and Kenya Markets Trust (KMT)
Funding: GBP 15.9 million
Country/region: Kenya
Dates: 2011 – 2016
Value chains: Dairy, livestock, supply chain management, water, inputs, and media
Approach: Market systems development approach
Brief: MAP II scales up the MAP component under PRIME. MAP II focuses on eight
markets with potential to impact the situation of the poor and fund the Kenya
Gatsby Charitable Trust. It aims to reduce poverty in Kenya by enabling poor peo-
ple to benefit from better functioning markets, and by building greater awareness
among influential decision makers of how markets can work better for the poor.
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Project name: Resilience and Economic Growth in the Arid Lands–Accelerated Growth
(REGAL-AG)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: USD 20 million
Country/region: Kenya
Dates: 2012 − 2017
Value chains: Livestock
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The REGAL-Accelerated Growth (REGAL-AG) project uses a facilitation ap-
proach that stimulates market improvement without becoming a direct part of the
market system. This is accomplished through project activities that forge effective,
sustainable relationships among value chain actors to create a more vibrant livestock
value chain. REGAL-AG prioritizes the following cross-cutting issues that are criti-
cal to achieving the program’s objectives: a) a policy, legal and regulatory environ-
ment that creates incentives for investment by all value chain actors, with clear ben-
efits flowing to male and female pastoralists alike b) access to financial services all
along the value chain c) gender-equitable solutions to improved competitiveness,
productivity and livestock-related enterprise development and d) sustainable natural
resource management that supports effective management of grazing land, water
and other natural resources and increases resilience to climate change stresses.
LIBERIA
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Food and Enterprise Development (FED)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: DAI
Funding: USD 75 million
Country/region: Liberia
Dates: 2011 – 2016
Value chains: Rice, cassava, vegetables
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The Food and Enterprise Development (FED) project has a market-led and value
chain-driven methodology which builds indigenous capacity, and focuses on benefit-
ing Liberia’s women and youth. New market linkages are catalyzing income and job
growth and increases in the production, processing, marketing, and nutritional utili-
zation of rice, cassava, and vegetables in Bong, Lofa, Nimba, Grand Bassa, Montser-
rado, and Margibi counties, a region targeted as a development corridor that fosters
commerce, simultaneously improving food availability and access and dietary diver-
sity.
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Project name: Grow Liberia
Donor: Sida
Primary implementer: Adam Smith International (ASI)
Country/region: Liberia
Dates: 2014 – 2018
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: This project uses an M4P approach with the objective to substantially increase in-
comes and employment opportunities for a large number of poor women, men and
youth, created through market development in agriculture.
MALAWI
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Multi-Donor Financial Sector Deepening Trust (MFSDT)
Donors: World Bank, USAID, and DFID
Funding: USD 28 million
Brief: Funds will be pooled for supporting commonly agreed development objectives and
activities alongside conventional project components supervised by the World Bank.
Project name: Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: DAI
Funding: USD 24.6 million
Country/region: Malawi
Dates: 2012 – 2015
Value chains: Legumes (groundnuts, soy), dairy
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: INVC promotes gender-equitable, agriculture-led, integrated economic growth ap-
proaches to increase the competitiveness of the legume and dairy value chains; im-
prove productivity through soil and water management practices; reduce chronic
under-nutrition; foster innovation in agricultural value chains; and develop the ca-
pacity of local organizations and systems to promote climate change resilience.
MALI
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Cereal Value Chain (CVC)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: USD 21.5 million
Country/region: Mali
Dates: 2013 – 2018
Value chains: Sorghum, millet, rice
Approach: Facilitation
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Brief: The Cereal Value Chain (CVC) program takes a facilitative approach to value chain
development, ensuring that project efforts lead to sustainable partnerships and in-
creased benefits for all actors operating within the value chains, as well as enhanced
long-term food security in the target areas. CVC promotes integration, empower-
ment of women and inclusive development in the sorghum/millet and rice value
chains in Mali and contributes to strengthening resilience of vulnerable communities
and populations. This includes key activities necessary for value chain integration
and competitiveness such as production, research and technology dissemination,
marketing, processing, trade, finance, capacity building and elements of policy re-
form. Key aspects of the implementation approach include: a) Capacity building
across an array of business development services and agricultural production skills
b) Strengthening of relationships among value chain actors and c) Support services
and promoting an enabling environment necessary for long-term competitiveness.
Project name: Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: Abt Associates
Funding: USD 38.6 million
Country/region: Mali
Dates: 2007 – 2013
Value chains: Rice, maize, millet, sorghum, horticulture, shallots
Brief: In the Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM) project, Abt Associates promoted more
competitive, prosperous and sustainable agricultural development to spur economic
growth. IICEM supported market-driven agricultural production and productivity.
The project focused on improving product quality and raising production levels to
satisfy market demand, thereby boosting incomes and access to food security and
enabling Malians to emerge from poverty.
MOZAMBIQUE KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: InovAgro (Innovation for Agribusiness)
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: DAI
Country/region: Northern Mozambique
Dates: 2011 – 2019
Value chains: Soybeans, pigeon peas, maize, sesame, and groundnuts
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: This private sector-led agricultural growth project takes the M4P approach to iden-
tify value chains in which existing private sector players are operating that also pro-
vide significant scope for smallholder participation. The formal project begins in
January 2014 with the facilitated support for the development of commercially via-
ble seed industries.
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NIGERIA
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Better Business Environment
(ENABLE)
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Adam Smith International (ASI) with Springfield Centre
Funding: GBP 12 million
Country/region: Nigeria
Dates: 2008 – 2013
Approach: Market systems development approach
Brief: ENABLE employed a market systems approach to improve the quality and quantity
of business advocacy and public-private dialogue in Nigeria. The project facilitated
systemic change in the market for business environment reform. This project identi-
fied the media as an effective platform for dialogue, and information and research as
the basis for evidence-based advocacy and policy, legal, and regulatory responses.
Project name: Growth and Employment in States (GEMS1) - Meat and Leather
Donor: DfID
Funding: GBP 7.7 million
Country/region: Nigeria (3 states)
Dates: 2010 – 2015
Value chains: Meat, leather
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: The project aims to identify the underlying constraints to competitiveness in the
meat and leather industry and work with the private sector and government to over-
come these constraints. There may be learning networks (or at least working
groups) as part of this project.
Project name: Growth and Employment in States (GEMS2) - Construction and Real Estate
Sector
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Coffey International
Country/region: Nigeria
Dates: 2010 – 2015
Value chains: Construction and real estate
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: The project seeks to facilitate improved functioning of markets for human resource
development to ease skill shortages for the sector and provide greater opportunities
for gainful employment for the work force.
Project name: Growth and Employment in States (GEMS3) - Support for Improved Busi-
ness Regulations
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Adam Smith International (ASI)
Country/region: Nigeria
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Dates: 2010 – 2015
Value chains: Land and tax administration and investment promotion
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: This project addresses issues relating to land and tax administration and investment
promotion and facilitation. It provides a flexible facility to respond to new opportu-
nities to reduce barriers to investment in targeted states.
Project name: Growth and Employment in States (GEMS4) - Wholesale and Retail Trade
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Coffey International
Country/region: Nigeria
Dates: 2012 – 2017
Value chains: Wholesale and retail sector
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: The project aims to improve income and employment opportunities within the
wholesale and retail sector. This project is working to increase local capacity and
change market incentives so that the wholesale and retail sector better meets the
long-term needs of the poor.
Project name: Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites
(Markets II)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Chemonics
Funding: USD 34 million
Country/region: Nigeria
Dates: 2012 – 2017
Value chains: Rice, cowpea, sorghum, sesame
Brief: The Markets II program continues to work to improve the Nigerian agriculture sec-
tor by providing assistance to stakeholders in the agriculture value chain, enhancing
the quality of production and processing and connecting Nigerian farmers with lu-
crative markets and interested buyers. The project also works with local farmers and
other small- and medium-scale enterprises to increase their access to investment
capital. Participation of new financial institutions like Unity Bank will result in in-
creased loans available to rural clients, allowing farmers to improve their farms, in-
crease productivity, and see higher profits.
Project name: Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities in Commodity and Service Markets
(PrOpCom)
Donor: DfID, Sail Associates
Primary implementer: Chemonics
Funding: GBP 16.6 million
Country/region: Nigeria
Dates: 2002 – 2011
Value chains: Agriculture, forestry, fisheries
Approach: M4P approach
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Brief: PrOpCom aimed to facilitate the functionality and efficiency of Nigerian commod-
ity and service markets to assure benefit to the poor.
Project name: Propcom Mai-karfi (Propcom II)
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: GRM International
Funding: GBP 26.5 million
Country/region: Northern Nigeria
Dates: 2011 – 2017
Value chains: Soy, ‘soap with hand washing’, village chicken, fertilizer, tractors
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: PrOpCom Mai-karfi builds on PrOpCom (2002-2011), with the aim of increasing
the incomes of over 500,000 poor people in the north of Nigeria through facilitating
change in key market sectors. Aims to increase incomes for the poor through en-
hanced employment opportunities.
RWANDA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Renewable Energy and Adaptive Climate Technologies (REACT)
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)
Funding: USD 24 million
Country/region: Rwanda
Dates: 2010 – 2016
Brief: Operates as a social venture capital fund, seeking and engaging with companies to
find those project and business ideas with the greatest rate of return against the pro-
ject’s objectives. Helps to support private sector investment in increased access to
low cost, clean energy for rural businesses and households, products and services to
help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, and financial services to increase
such access.
SENEGAL KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Economic Growth Project (PCE)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Engility (IRG)
Funding: USD 47 million
Country/region: Senegal
Dates: 2009 – 2014
Value chains: Rice, maize, millet
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The project works to improve food security, working to boost investment in the ag-
riculture sector and to significantly increase the contribution of agriculture to the
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national economy. This project adopted a facilitation approach to facilitate the use
of contracts and quality standards, disseminate technical productivity packages
through farmer networks managed by value chain partners, promote acquisition of
post-harvest, processing, and storage equipment, and create market linkages.
SIERRA LEONE KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Sierra Leone Market Development Programme
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Adam Smith International
Funding: GBP 4.37 million
Country/region: Sierra Leone
Dates: 2013 - 2015
Value chains: Agricultural sectors
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: The Market Development Programme supports the development of agricultural
markets and light manufacturing in Sierra Leone. The project’s objective is to de-
sign and implement interventions by addressing market failures in agriculture and
manufacturing sectors which will result in improvements to market systems and en-
able poor people to participate more effectively in the markets, resulting in increased
incomes and creation of new jobs and economic opportunities.
SOUTH SUDAN KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Abt Associates
Funding: USD 55 million
Country/region: South Sudan
Dates: 2010 - 2015
Value chains: Maize, sorghum, cassava, groundnuts
Brief: The Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM) Project is helping South Sudan
to rapidly increase agricultural productivity in selected commodities, increase trade
and improve the country’s capacity to develop commercial small-holder agriculture.
The project is initially focused on four staple crops: maize, sorghum, cassava and
groundnuts and it focuses its work in the three Greenbelt states of West, Central,
and East Equatoria -areas of great agricultural potential.
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TANZANIA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Cotton Sector Development Programme
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Gatsby Charitable Foundation / Tanzania Gatsby Trust
Funding: GBP 7.32 million
Country/region: Tanzania
Dates: 2011 – 2015
Value chains: Cotton
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: This project aims to raise the income of 360,000 smallholder farmers in the rural
lake zone of Tanzania by providing support to farmers and the Tanzania Cotton
Board to increase cotton yields each year.
Project name: Business Environment Strengthening for Tanzania-Advocacy Component
Donor: Sida, DfID
Primary implementer: Technoserve
Country/region: Tanzania
Dates: 2008 – 2013
Brief: This is a business advocacy program which focused on enhancing the quality and
credibility of private sector organizations to engage effectively in private-public dia-
logue and to advocate for improvements in the business environment in the coun-
try.
Project name: Cluster Competitiveness Programme
Donor: DfID
Country/region: Tanzania
Dates: 2009 – 2012
Value chains: Horticulture, food processing, tourism, tea, livestock – dairy and beef, fishing, tex-
tiles/apparel, and transport logistics
Approach: Cluster approach
Brief: Project used the comprehensive cluster approach to mobilize stakeholders in those
clusters and to encourage buy-in, targeting private enterprises.
Project name: Coastal Rural Support Programme
Donor: Sida, DfID
Primary implementer: AKF
Country/region: Tanzania (two of the most impoverished regions)
Dates: 2010 – 2015
Value chains: Rice, sesame
Brief: This project targets 60,000 households living in rural villages and aims to increase
incomes and food security for smallholder farmers.
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Project name: Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania
Donor: Sida, DfID
Country/region: Tanzania
Market system: Financial
Dates: 1999 – 2015
Brief: This project aims to provide greater access for more people to engage with the fi-
nancial system throughout Tanzania, and focuses completely on financial sector
deepening.
Project name: Rural Livelihoods Development Programme (RLDP)
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: NGO registered in Tanzania
Country/region: Tanzania: 7 poverty-stricken, semi-arid regions of central Tanzania
Market systems: Agricultural sector
Approach: M4P approach (adopted approach in 2008)
Dates: 2004 – 2016
Brief: The project aims to reduce rural poverty by linking the poor producers and proces-
sors with markets.
Project name: Tanzania Staples (NAFAKA)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: USD 30 million
Country/region: Tanzania
Value chains: Rice, maize
Dates: 2011 – 2016
Brief: NAFAKA integrates agricultural, gender, environment and nutritional development
efforts to improve smallholder farmer productivity and profitability within the maize
and rice value chains in Morogoro, Dodoma, and Manyara. NAFAKA works with
rural communities and the Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture to analyze the local
maize and rice value chains and develop a strategy to strengthen them.
UGANDA KEY LEARNING PROJECTS Project name: Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning Program (or the Learning Contract)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: QED Group LLC
Funding: USD 15 million
Country/region: Uganda
Dates: 2012 – 2017
Brief: This program is central to USAID/Uganda’s broader organization learning and de-
velopment policy effort called Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA). It cre-
ates the conditions to enable USAID/Uganda to become a more adaptive, modern,
and effective development enterprise. It provides technical assistance, mentoring,
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training and capacity building to USAID/Uganda and implementing partners’ to
strengthen systems and practices in M&E, learning, and adaptation. Facilitates pro-
fessional relationships and network building.
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Enabling Environment for Agriculture
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Chemonics
Funding: USD 20.2 million
Country/region: Uganda
Approach: Facilitation approach
Dates: 2013 - 2016
Brief: The project aims to improve the policy, legal, and regulatory framework that affects
agricultural production and trade to make it easier for farmers and agribusinesses to
do business.
Project name: Agricultural Inputs Activity (Ag-Inputs) (also referred to as PAID in the past)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: TetraTech /ARD
Funding: USD 7.5 million
Country/region: Uganda’s FTF focus districts
Approach: Market systems development approach
Dates: 2012 – 2017
Brief: Following up on LEAD (see below), FTF Ag-Inputs aims to increase the use of
high quality agricultural inputs in Uganda. It focuses on increased availability of in-
puts to farmers and decreased prevalence of counterfeit agricultural inputs.
Project name: Commodity Production and Marketing Activity Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Chemonics
Funding: USD 23 million
Country/region: Uganda
Approach: Value chain development approach
Dates: 2013 – 2018
Brief: The project’s goal is to achieve a sustainable increase in the production and market-
ing of high quality maize, beans, and coffee.
Project name: Northern Karamoja Growth Health and Governance (GHG)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: Mercy Corps
Country/region: Karamoja region of Uganda
Approach: Market systems development approach
Funding: USD 53 million
Dates: 2012 – 2017
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Brief: GHG takes a long-term market development programming approach with targeted
assistance to the critically vulnerable, along with a strong focus on the sub-region’s
complex gender dynamics.
Project name: Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural Development (LEAD)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: TetraTech/ARD
Country/region: Uganda
Value chains: Maize, bean, coffee, inputs
Approach: Market systems development approach
Funding amount: USD 35 million
Dates: 2008 – 2013
Brief: LEAD worked through strategic entry points to the agriculture sector, including
agro-dealers/stockists, input companies, input associations, and government enti-
ties. The project improved the linkages between 160,000 smallholder farmer house-
holds and over 110 private sector firms. Incomes of the participating households
increased from around $610 to $1,100 over the lifetime of the project.
Project name: Revitalizing Agricultural Incomes and New Markets (RAIN)
Donor: US Department of Agriculture
Primary implementer: Mercy Corps
Country/region: Acholi region of Northern Uganda
Dates: 2011 – 2015
Funding: USD 6.6 million
Brief: The project stimulates economic prosperity and food security by building the capac-
ity of agricultural service providers. Among many activities, RAIN uses the agent
model to get agricultural inputs to rural smallholder farmers as well as providers of
commercial tillage and post-harvest storage.
Project name: Uganda Financial Services Inclusion Program
Donor: DfID
Funding: GBP 17 million
Country/region: Uganda
Market system: Financial
Approach: M4P approach
Dates: 2012 - 2016
Brief: Builds on successful financial deepening program being implemented by DFID in
Tanzania and Kenya. Aims to improve the capacity of financial institutions,
strengthen the financial sector by providing support services, and support an appro-
priate legal and regulatory structure for the delivery of services to the poor.
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ZAMBIA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Making Agricultural Markets Work for Zambia
Donor: DfID, Sida
Primary implementer: Musika (Zambian NGO)
Country/region: Zambia
Dates: 2012 – 2016
Brief: Project focused on the agricultural market. Through technical support and a range
of investments and interventions, the project aimed to deepen commercial market
engagement with the rural poor to benefit both sides of the transaction.
Project name: Mawa
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future and PEPFAR)
Primary implementer: CRS
Funding: USD 10 million
Country/region: Zambia
Dates: 2013 – 2017
Brief: This project aims to help more than 21,000 vulnerable and very poor rural house-
holds in targeted areas become more food secure through activities that accelerate
agricultural production and better nutritional and health practices.
Project name: Production, Finance and Improved Technology (PROFIT)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: CLUSA
Funding: USD 15 million
Country/region: Zambia
Dates: 2005 – 2010
Value chains: Beef, cotton, agricultural inputs
Approach: Market systems development approach
Brief: PROFIT’s main aims were to strengthen connections within selected value chains to
increase the provision of inputs and services to farmers with the objective of im-
proving productive output and quality, therefore increasing household incomes.
The project worked with lead firms and communities to develop agent networks in
order to reach rural areas. It also used an industry-based strategy, meaning that all
interventions targeted individual enterprises with the aim of improving the overall
functioning of the industry and to foster the development of commercial mecha-
nisms to address critical production constraints.
Project name: Production, Finance and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: USD 24 million
Country/region: Zambia
Value chains: Soybean, sunflower, maize, groundnut, horticulture
Approach: Value chain development approach
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Dates: 2012 – 2016
Brief: The program targets smallholder farmers and agro-enterprises to increase agricul-
tural productivity and facilitate inclusive access to markets and private sector invest-
ment in target value chains. The project focuses on three objectives: 1) improved
smallholder productivity; 2) greater access to markets and trade; and, 3) increased
private sector investment in agriculture-related activities. Applying both “push” and
“pull” interventions to create pathways out of poverty for smallholders, PROFIT+
will ensure that vulnerable households and women benefit equitably from increased
productivity and investment.
Project name: Zambia Economic Resilience for Improved Food Security (ZERS)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: CRS
Funding: USD 10 million
Country/region: Zambia, with a focus on Eastern Province
Dates: 2012 – 2017
Brief: This project aims to build assets, improve nutrition practices, and increase economic
opportunities for very poor households through an integrated approach linking vul-
nerable households to productive agricultural value chains and investing in commu-
nity, district, and provincial health systems.
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COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS: ASIA
& NEAR EAST
MULTI-COUNTRY KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: GTZ Assets for Asia
Members: Donor-based/focused network
Resources: http://www.gtz.de/en/weltweit/asien-pazifik/8880.htm
BANGLADESH KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: Market Development Forum (MDF)
Overview: Member-led networking organization that brings together market development
practitioner organizations including donors, NGOs and private sector institutions
that are working on strengthening the private sector in Bangladesh. Aims to facili-
tate greater collaboration and coordination among organizations and projects apply-
ing different market development practices by providing a platform for its member
organizations to share best practices and experiences, to support effective, synchro-
nized and sustainable application. The services provided by the Forum include
meetings for learning, general discussion events, workshops and field trips.
Formation: Established in 2005. MDF was initiated as a joint collaboration between CARE-
Bangladesh, GTZ PROGRESS, Katalyst and IFC-SEDF. In 2012 the Forum was in
the process of formalizing and establishing itself as an autonomous entity free from
donor agendas, with members building the organizational vision and agenda, based
on their needs and market demand. SDC was to fund a portion of the budget and
the rest was to come from member contributions.
Key contacts: Rajiv Pradhan, Executive Director, IDE-Bangladesh rajiv.pradhan@ide-bangla-
desh.org
Mr. Adnan Kabir of CARE Bangladesh, Interim MDF Coordinator
Members: Forum has 34 members that are active in market development initiatives in agricul-
ture, agri-business, handicraft production, light engineering and health. It is a loosely
affiliated network, which welcomes any organization or body interested in similar
issues regarding private sector development.
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Program
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: DAI
Funding: USD 34.2 million
Country/region: Southern Delta of Bangladesh
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Dates: 2013 – 2018
Value chains: Fruits, vegetables, pulses
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The project aims to achieve broad-based economic growth and enhance long-term
food security.
Project name: Agro Forestry Improvement Partnership (AFIP)
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: HELVETAS
Country/region: Bangladesh
Dates: 2004 – 2012
Brief: Targeted smallholder farmer households to establish a sustainable system for pro-
duction and distribution of quality planting materials.
Project name: Agro-Inputs Program (AIP)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: CNFA
Funding: USD 14 million
Country/region: Southern Delta of Bangladesh
Dates: 2013 – 2017
Value chains: Agricultural inputs
Brief: The project aims to increase agricultural productivity, reduce rural poverty, and to
improve food security in the southern delta of Bangladesh. The program will create
a sustainable Agro Input Retailers Network (AIRN) to deliver training, improved
inputs and related services to at least 3,000 agro input retailers. An additional out-
put will be the creation of an Ag-Inputs Monthly Price Outlook Bulletin and a Geo-
graphic Information System (GIS) for visual representation of input distribution.
Project name: Katalyst Phase II
Donor: DfID, SDC
Primary implementer: Swisscontact
Funding: Approximately GBP 11.8 Million
Country/region: Bangladesh
Dates: 2008 – 2013
Value chains: 16 key rural and urban sectors including vegetables, prawn, potatoes, maize, jute,
furniture, fish, tourism, seed, fertilizer, and ICT
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: Using an M4P approach, Katalyst II aimed to contribute to increased income for
men and women in rural and urban areas by increasing the competitiveness of 16
key rural and urban sectors. These sectors are relevant to large numbers of poor
people and which have the greatest potential for inclusive growth and sustainable
change.
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Project name: Katalyst Phase III
Donor: DfID, SDC
Primary implementer: Swisscontact, GIZ
Funding: GBP 12 million
Country/region: Bangladesh
Dates: 2013 − 2017
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: Katalyst, now entering its third phase, is a market development project that aims to
increase the competitiveness of farmers and small enterprises in Bangladesh by facil-
itating changes in services, inputs, and product markets.
Project name: Making Markets Work for the Chars (M4C)
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: Swisscontact
Funding: CHF 8.2 million
Country/region: Bangladesh
Dates: 2011 – 2016
Value chains: Agriculture crops (including maize, chili, jute, groundnut) and non-farm sectors
such as handicrafts and transport
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: M4C aims to improve the market systems for the poor people living on the chars of
ten districts in Northern and North Western Bangladesh, opening up new opportu-
nities for job and income generation. The project partners with private and public
entities to address the constraints and opportunities of char producing households;
supports innovative business models; facilitates systemic changes; considers empow-
erment of women in economic activities; and considers means to mitigate affects of
disaster shocks.
Project name: Samriddhi
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: HELVETAS
Country/region: Bangladesh’s Rajshahi Division and Sunamganj District
Dates: 2010 – 2014
Approach: M4P and “Human and Institutional Development” (HID) Approaches
Brief: Project focused on strengthening the resiliency of poor and extreme poor house-
holds through social and economic empowerment.
Project name: Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project (SDVC)
Donor: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Primary implementer: Care
Country/region: Bangladesh
Dates: 2007 – 2012
Value chain: Dairy
Approach: Value chain development approach
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Brief: The goal of this project was to improve the dairy-related incomes of 35,000 small-
holder farmers in northwest Bangladesh, by addressing the major challenges to im-
proving smallholder participation in the value chain. The challenges include farmer
mobilization and education, access to markets for their milk, and access to produc-
tivity-enhancing inputs.
CAMBODIA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Cambodia Agricultural Value Chains (CAVAC) Program
Donor: AusAid
Primary implementer: Cardno
Funding: AU 32 million
Country/region: Cambodia
Dates: 2010 – 2015
Value chain: Rice
Brief: This project provides assistance in four areas, including agribusiness, water manage-
ment and irrigation, research and extension, and business enabling environment.
Project name: Helping Address Rural Vulnerabilities and Ecosystem Stability (Harvest)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Fintrac
Funding: USD 56.8 million
Country/region: Cambodia
Dates: 2010 – 2015
Brief: HARVEST is a five-year integrated food security and climate change program,
which seeks to reduce poverty and malnutrition by diversifying and increasing food
production and income for up to 70,000 rural households.
Project name: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Strengthening 1 and 2 Project (MSME
1 and 2)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: DAI
Funding: USD 26 million
Country/region: Cambodia (17 rural provinces)
Dates: 2005 – 2012
Value chains: Aquaculture, pigs, tile manufacturing, water, honey, resin, ecotourism
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: These projects employed a market-driven, grassroots strategy to alleviate poverty
and foster economic growth. The projects goals were to build business and technical
skills for actors throughout the value chain and promote business relationships be-
tween these actors and the government.
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INDIA KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: Livelihoods India Initiative
includes: Making Markets Work for the Poor Network
ACCESS Livelihoods Platform
Managed by: ACCESS Development Services India
Brief: The ACCESS Livelihoods India initiative developed from experience gained
through the CARE-CASHE microfinance program and includes the Making Mar-
kets Work for the Poor Network and the ACCESS Livelihoods Platform. The Plat-
form brings together experiences and issues faced by livelihoods promoting agencies
to promote a discussion of the key challenges faced by the sector in livelihoods pro-
motion of the poor. ACCESS works with local NGOs, to build their capacity, de-
velop community based strategies and design models that can be replicated across
contexts and regions. At the regional level, ACCESS provides technical and manage-
rial support to stakeholders and undertaking impact studies to contribute to the
wider knowledge pool within the sector. At the national level, ACCESS seeks to
bring together all stakeholders for identifying key constraints affecting the sector,
share experiences and discuss, delve into and devise solutions. ACCESS livelihoods
projects are implemented under three broad sub-sectors, i.e. sustainable agricultural
development, forest-based activities and handicrafts. The key points of focus in-
clude the introduction of prudential norms, discipline and sustainability of resources
invested in livelihoods intervention. Producers are provided with need-based ser-
vices to integrate them into value chains. In addition, ACCESS organizes the An-
nual Livelihoods Conference and produces the Annual State of India’s Livelihoods
Report.
NEPAL KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: Market Development Forum Network (MDFN)
Type: In-person network
Founded: 2013
Managed by: SAMARTH Nepal
Participants: 20 participants (as of December 2013) with SAMARTH project actively facilitating
meetings and increased membership. Includes: SAMARTH, Kisani (Winrock),
Mercy Corps, Sappros, SwissContact, GIZ, Practical Action, SNV, Ceapred, Devtec,
Forward Nepal, Helvetas, and IDE
Network: Nepal Market Development Practitioners Forum (MD Forum)
Type: Online network only
Founded: 2011
Managed by: Set up by staff member of Practical Action, Regional Office, South Asia – unsure if
actively managed through this office
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Platform: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Nepal-Market-Development-Practitioners-Fo-
rum-4198738?home=&gid=4198738&trk=anet_ug_hm
Members: 132 members (as of December 2013)
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Market Access for Smallholder Farmers (MASF)
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Practical Action
Country/region: Nepal
Funding: USD 2.02 million
Dates: 2010 – 2012
Value chain: Dairy
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: This project aimed to help more than 10,000 poor dairy farmers in rural areas, in-
cluding marginalized hill areas. It was focused on strengthening dairy value chain
and seeking to address key market constraints—veterinary service access, coopera-
tive-led organization, access to forage, fodder and processed feed.
Project name: Promoting Climate Resilient Agriculture Nepal
Donor: IFC
Primary implementer: Practical Action
Country/region: Nepal
Funding: USD 1 million
Dates: 2013 – 2017
Value chains: Rice, maize, sugarcane
Brief: This project aims to help more than 15,000 farmers to make their agricultural activi-
ties more climate resilient through their linkages with rice, sugar and feed processors
and to further national lead practice on climate resilient agriculture. Tripartite rela-
tionships among farmers, lead firms and local agrovets and input dealers will drive
efforts to upgrade practices, with a focus on high yield varieties, water management
practices, ICT based information, and access to finance.
Project name: Rural Access Programme
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: International Medical Corps
Country/region: Nepal
Funding: USD 3.3 million
Dates: 2014 – 2018
Value chains: Goat, vegetable, spices
Brief: This project aims to promote socio-economic activities around road corridors of
remote areas. The main objective is to help more than 10,000 poor and vulnerable
people around road corridors to capitalize on market opportunities created by road
connections.
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Project name: SAMARTH-Nepal Market Development Programme
Donor: DfID
Primary implementer: Adam Smith International (ASI)
Funding: GBP 14,540,295
Country/region: Nepal
Dates: 2011 − 2016
Value chains: Vegetables, aquaculture, pigs, ginger, dairy
Approach: Market Systems Development Approach
Brief: This project is a rural market development program that aims to reduce poverty in
Nepal by increasing incomes of 300,000 smallholder farmers and small-scale entre-
preneurs. The program has a particular focus on poor and disadvantaged women
and men.
PAKISTAN KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: USAID Agribusiness Project (UAP)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: Agribusiness Support Fund (a Pakistani non-profit) with support from CNFA
Funding: USD 90 million
Country/region: Pakistan
Dates: 2012 – 2016
Value chains: Horticulture, livestock
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: This project strengthens local capacity within key value chains to increase sales in
domestic and foreign markets. The program aims to increase economic growth,
employment opportunities and to amplify the competitiveness of horticulture and
livestock value chains.
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COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS:
LATIN AMERICA & THE
CARIBBEAN
MULTI-COUNTRY KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: Foundation ASOCAM Intercoopera Latin America (ASOCAM)
Website: http://www.asocam.org/index.shtml
Region: Based in Ecuador, serving Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Hondu-
ras, Peru and Switzerland
Brief: ASOCAM is a platform to facilitate knowledge exchange in Latin America on strate-
gies for rural development in the region. ASOCAM releases publications organized
by theme: water and climate change, local economic development, policy advocacy,
rural enterprises, and monitoring and evaluation. ASOCAM has a very broad reach,
capturing experiences from all the different countries, and aggregating the infor-
mation.
Members: Based in Quito, Ecuador, they have 50 members from 8 countries Bolivia, Cuba,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru and Switzerland.
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: COMPETE Caribbean IDB
Donor: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), DFID, and the Foreign Affairs, Trade
and Development Canada (DFATD)
Funding: Approximately USD 40 million
Brief: Private sector development program that provides technical assistance grants and
investment funding to support productive development policies, SME development
activities, and business climate reforms in the Caribbean region. It aims to improve
the enabling environment for business development, trade, and integration; to in-
crease the consensus and focus on strategic interventions to promote private sector
development; and to enhance the capacity of clusters and firms to increase produc-
tivity.
GUATEMALA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Rural Value Chain Program - Horticulture
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Exporters’ Association (AGEXPORT)
Funding: USD 24 million
Country/region: Guatemala
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Dates: 2012 – 2017
Value chain: Horticulture
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: The objective of this project is to improve household access to food by expanding
and diversifying rural income and to continue to improve the nutritional status of
families benefitted under this program.
Project name: Rural Value Chain Program - Coffee
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: National Coffee Association (ANACAFÉ)
Funding: Approximately USD 20 million
Country/region: Guatemala
Dates: 2012 – 2017
Value chain: Coffee
Approach: Value Chain Development Approach
Brief: The objective of this project is to improve household access to food by expanding
and diversifying rural income and to continue to improve the nutritional status of
families benefitted under this program.
HAITI KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: AVANSE1 or Feed the Future North (FTFN)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: DAI
Funding: USD 87.8 million
Country/region: Northern region of Haiti
Dates : 2013 – 2018
Value chains: Maize, beans, rice, plantains, cocoa
Brief : The flagship Feed the Future program in the region, AVANSE looks to increase
incomes while also developing local companies into direct partners of USAID’s
funding to Haiti. The project aims to increase agricultural productivity; improve
watershed stability above selected plains; strengthen agricultural markets by increas-
ing access to financial products; and improve transportation infrastructure.
Project name: Local Enterprise & Value Chain Enhancement (LEVE)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: RTI
Funding: USD 32.6 million
Country/region: Haiti (primarily Port-au-Prince, Cap Haitien, and Saint-Marc)
Dates: 2013 – 2018
Value chains: Garments, construction, and agribusiness
1 Appui a la Valorisation du potentiel Agricole du Nord, a la Securite Economique et Environnementale
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Brief: The project with increase employment in Haiti through support to MSMEs and the
value chains in which they operate.
HONDURAS
KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Rural Economic Diversification (RED)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: Fintrac
Funding: USD 11.7 million
Country/region: Honduras
Dates: 2005 – 2010
Brief: This four-year project’s objective was to increase incomes and employment oppor-
tunities in rural communities of Honduras. It focused on increasing the competi-
tiveness of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, expanding their local sales,
exports and investments and promoting an increase in the production and invest-
ment in increased value and value-added products.
Project name: ACCESO
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Fintrac
Funding: USD 24million
Country/region: Honduras
Dates: 2011 – 2015
Value chain: High value cash crops and off-farm MSEs
Approach: Value chain development approach
Brief: This project works to lift rural households out of poverty and malnutrition condi-
tions through access to economic development opportunities and improved health
and nutrition practices. By introducing good agricultural practices and market-
driven production program for high value cash crops, the project is aiming to in-
creasing sales and incomes.
PERU KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: Consortium of Private Organizations promoting the development of small
and Micro Enterprise (COPEME)
Website: www.copeme.org.pe
Overview: COPEME focuses on local economic development, sustainable development and
gender equality. Advocacy initiatives include formulation of technical and policy
proposals in local economic development, research studies and books, and advisory
services to political offices. Skills development includes product development and
technical training, training of trainers, technical assistance support in monitoring,
evaluation, impact measurement and organization of internships. COPEME pro-
vides advisory services to local governments, including diagnostics and studies, plan
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preparation, implementation of operational plans, and monitoring. Training pro-
grams are offered to local governments, including sensitization workshops, and spe-
cialized modules and materials.
Founded: Founded in 1990 as a not for profit civil association comprised of over 50 NGOs
and private institutions in Peru to promote and develop economic opportunities at
the national and local level, and to engage representatives of different stakeholders
from the government including unions, local and regional governments.
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COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS:
EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIA
ARMENIA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Rural Development in the Region of Meghri / Markets for Meghri (M4M)
Phase II
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Swiss Foundation for Development and Inter-
national Cooperation
Funding: Approximately USD 3.9 million
Country/region: Meghri region of Armenia
Dates: 2012 – 2016
Value chains: Fig, persimmon, pomegranate
Brief: The project goal is an increased and sustainable income of small-scale horticulture
producers (value chains of fig, persimmon and pomegranate) through higher profit-
ability of production and enhanced access to markets.
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Market Makers / “Making Markets Work for the New Generation”
(MMW4NG)
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Funding: Approximately USD 5.5 million
Country/region: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dates: 2012 – 2017
Approach: M4P approach
Brief: The main aim of the Market Makers program is to promote the creation of decent
job opportunities for young men and women in Bosnia and Herzegovina. By using
the M4P Approach, the program will aim to facilitate change processes in market
systems in order to allow poor people to reap additional benefits, e.g., in terms of
improved employment opportunities, from their participation in the market. Key
constraints and their underlying systemic causes in different economic subsectors
relevant for youth employment will be identified and targeted interventions to ad-
dress the identified systemic causes designed.
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GEORGIA KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS: Project name: Market Opportunities for Livelihood Improvement (MOLI)
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: HEKS-EPER with partnership of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Funding: Approximately USD 4.88 million
Country/region: Kakheti region of eastern Georgia
Dates: 2011 – 2015
Value chains: Milk and meat
Brief: The project facilitates the development of the milk value chain from improved ani-
mal breed to milk processing and the development of the meat value chain.
KOSOVO KEY TECHNICAL PROJECTS Project name: Enhancing Youth Employment (EYE)
Donor: SDC
Primary implementer: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation (along with Management Development Asso-
ciates)
Funding: USD 8.5 million
Country/region: Kosovo
Dates: 2012 − 2016
Approach M4P approach
Brief: The project will facilitate the improvement of labor market conditions for young
Kosovar women and men. Based on the requirements of the private sector, the
project will work with skills development services to provide more adequate training
and education which would lead to more job opportunities. The EYE project will
enable job seekers to better access vacant positions and make informed decisions
about their career paths. The intervention strategy of the EYE program is guided
by the M4P Approach as strategic framework. As a facilitator, the EYE program
will identify relevant constraints for youth employment in the labor market and re-
lated support functions and will enable relevant actors to play more valid roles.
Project name: New Opportunities for Agriculture (NOA)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: Tetra Tech ARD
Funding: USD 15.9 million
Country/region: Kosovo
Dates: 2011 – 2015
Value chains: Apples, gherkins, lettuce, table grapes, berries, and will expand to flower bulbs, as-
paragus, lettuce/chicory new varieties, berries (blueberries/cranberries, gooseber-
ries/currants), kiwi fruit, and saffron.
Approach: Value chain development approach
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Brief: NOA bases development of value chains on the principle of demand drives supply,
using backward linkages from market to producer. NOA will identify, build, or
strengthen the links in the value chains to add value, ensure competitiveness in the
market, and ensure fair returns to each link for their efforts and risk.
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COUNTRY-LEVEL SYNOPSIS:
GLOBAL KEY LEARNING NETWORKS Network: Business Action for Africa (BAA)
Website: www.businessactionforafrica.org
Overview: Interested in catalyzing collective business-led advocacy, on-the-ground programs,
and knowledge sharing. Current focus is on business drivers for growth (such as
trade and promoting Africa as an investment destination), and inclusive business
partnerships (including SME financing in value chains).
Members: Africa-based and Africa-facing businesses, international donor agencies. BAA has
around 150 members.
Main sponsors: Anglo American, BAT, Coca-Cola, De Beers, Diageo, Pfizer, SABMiller, Shell, Uni-
lever, DFID, CDC, IBLF. General membership is free.
Network: Business Call to Action (BCtA)
Overview: Launched in 2008, BCtA aims to accelerate progress towards the MDGs by chal-
lenging companies to develop inclusive business models that offer the potential for
both commercial success and development impact.
Main stakeholders: Multinational businesses
Main sponsors: Several donor agencies, including Australian Agency for International Development,
the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UK Department for International Devel-
opment, the US Agency for International Development, the United Nations Devel-
opment Programme, the United Nations Global Compact, the Clinton Global Initi-
ative, and the International Business Leaders Forum.
Network: Business Fights Poverty (BFP)
Website: www.businessfightspoverty.org
Overview: An online community of practice and venue to share knowledge and network with
peers. Does not generate knowledge - primarily acts as a venue to showcase
knowledge, to facilitate engagement around that knowledge, and to encourage user-
generated content. It is an open forum. Membership is free. Has over 8,000 mem-
bers.
Main audience: Professionals in the field of business and development; roughly equal share from
business and NGOs, and smaller percentage from Government.
Main sponsors: Ad hoc sponsors of eDiscussions and eConferences (e.g. World Bank, UNDP), and
longer-term Knowledge Zone sponsors (e.g. SABMiller)
Network: Donor Committee on Enterprise Development (DCED)
Website: http://www.enterprise-development.org/
Primary implementer: 23 Member Agencies
Country/Region: Global
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Overview: The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development reduces poverty by agreeing
the most effective practices in the creation of economic opportunities and jobs –
based on the experiences of DCED members and others. The DCED has also be-
come the leading source of knowledge about Private Sector Development (PSD) –
documenting and disseminating the successes and lessons learned to improve the
results of PSD programs in developing countries.
Network: Market Systems Development Platform (working title)
Donor: DfID, SDC
Primary implementer: PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP
Funding: GBP 3 Million
Country/region: N/A
Dates: 2014-2017
Brief: A policy and practitioner learning community to promote inclusive market systems
approaches in development. It will pursue a responsive agenda of research, develop-
ment and innovation, and support better evaluation practices to build the evidence
base for market systems approaches in donor programs.
Network: Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI)
Managed by: SEEP Network, Washington DC
Network: SDC Employment and Income Network
Website: http://www.sdc-employment-income.ch/
Members: Donor-based/focused network
KEY LEARNING PROJECTS Project name: Enabling Agricultural Trade (EAT)
Donor: USAID (Feed the Future)
Primary implementer: Fintrac
Country/region: Bangladesh, Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Palestine, Papua New Guinea,
Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia
Brief: This project promotes inclusive agricultural sector growth by creating enabling en-
vironments for agribusinesses that encourage private sector investment and pro-
mote food security. The project aims to meet this goal by i) creating actionable
analysis to assist USG, policymakers, and practitioners, ii) through technical assis-
tance, and iii) by promoting leadership and collaboration among the development
community.
Project name: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Donor: USAID
Primary implementer: ACDI/VOCA
Funding: Ceiling of USD 21 million
Country/region: Global
Dates: 2013 – 2016
Value Chain: N/A
Approach: Market systems development approach
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Brief: The project fosters inclusive growth through markets. Building on USAID’s value
chain approach, LEO focuses on 1) a systems approach to markets, acknowledging
the complex inter-relationships among market actors, market and household sys-
tems, climate change, nutrition, the policy environment, and socio-cultural factors,
including poverty and gender; and 2) inclusion, recognizing the role that a spec-
trum of actors—from resource poor households and small-scale enterprises to
larger and more formal firms—play in catalyzing market change and growth that
benefits the poor. A key objective of LEO is to improve practice in inclusive mar-
ket systems development. To achieve this objective, LEO is centered on a collabo-
rative learning and dissemination strategy. LEO seeks to leverage the results of re-
search and analyses conducted through complementary mechanisms—such as the
Feed the Future Innovation Labs, the Food Security Service Center, the Enabling
Agricultural Trade project and others—to facilitate practitioner learning on how to
apply these results to the design, implementation and M&E of market develop-
ment projects.
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Table 6: At a Glance: Projects and Networks by Donor
Key: Grey = Learning-focused Projects & Learning Networks, Blue = Technical Projects FtF = Feed the Future
Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
AFRICA
MULTI-COUNTRY
Resilience Learning Project X
Agriculture Knowledge, Learning and Documentation Project (ASKDP) X
Sahel Resilience Learning Project (SAREL Project) X
ETHIOPIA
Agricultural Growth Program – Livestock Market Development (AGP-LMD) X (FtF)
Agricultural Growth Program - Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-
AMDe)
X (FtF)
Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) X (FtF)
GHANA
Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement II (ADVANCE II) X (FtF)
Completed: Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement I (ADVANCE I) X (FtF)
KENYA
Business Development Services Donor Coordination Group (BDCG)
Market Development East Africa (MDEA) X
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Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust Kenya X X
Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises (KAVES) X (FtF)
Market Assistance Programme (MAP) X
Resilience and Economic Growth in the Arid Lands–Accelerated Growth (REGAL-
AG)
X (FtF)
Completed: Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project (KHCP) X (FtF)
LIBERIA
Food and Enterprise Development (FED) X (FtF)
Grow Liberia X
MALAWI
Multi-Donor Financial Sector Deepening Trust (MFSDT) X X X
Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC) X (FtF)
MALI
Cereal Value Chain (CVC) X (FtF)
Completed: Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM) X
MOZAMBIQUE
InovAgro X
NIGERIA
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS1) – Meat and Leather X
GEMS2 – Construction and Real Estate Sector X
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Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
GEMS3 – Support for Improved Business Regulations X
GEMS4 – Wholesale and Retail Trade X
Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (Markets II) X (FtF)
Propcom Mai-karfi (Propcom II) X
Completed: Enhancing Nigerian Advocacy for a Better Business Environment
(ENABLE)
X
Completed: Promoting Pro-Poor Opp in Commodity and Service Markets (PrOp-
Com)
X
RWANDA
Renewable Energy and Adaptive Climate Technologies (REACT) X
SENEGAL
Completed: Economic Growth Project (PCE) X (FtF)
SIERRA LEONE
Sierra Leone Market Development Programme X
SOUTH SUDAN
Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM) X (FtF)
TANZANIA
Coastal Rural Support Programme X X
Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania X X
Rural Livelihoods Development Programme (RLDP) X
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Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
Tanzania Staples (NAFAKA) X (FtF)
Cotton Sector Development Programme X
Completed: Business Environment Strengthening for Tanzania-Advocacy Component X X
Completed: Cluster Competitiveness Programme X
UGANDA
Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning Program X
Enabling Environment for Agriculture X (FtF)
Northern Karamoja Growth Health and Governance (GHG) X
Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity (FTF Ag-Inputs) X (FtF)
Feed the Future Commodity Production and Marketing Activity X (FtF)
Uganda Financial Services Inclusion Programme X
Revitalizing Agricultural Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) X
Completed: Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural Development (LEAD) X
ZAMBIA
Making Agricultural Markets Work for Zambia X X
Mawa X (FtF)
Production, Finance and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+) X (FtF)
Zambia Economic Resilience for Improved Food Security (ZERS) X (FtF)
Completed: Production, Finance and Improved Technology (PROFIT) X
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Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
ASIA
MULTI-COUNTRY
GTZ Assets for Asia GTZ
BANGLADESH
Market Development Forum (MDF) X Others
Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Program X (FtF)
Agro-Inputs Program (AIP) X (FtF)
Katalyst Phase III X X
Making Markets Work for the Chars (M4C) X
Completed: Agro Forestry Improvement Partnership (AFIP) X
Completed: Katalyst Phase II X X
Completed: Samriddhi X
Completed: Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain Project (SDVC) Gates
CAMBODIA
Cambodia Agricultural Value Chains (CAVAC) Program X
Helping Address Rural Vulnerabilities and Ecosystem Stability (Harvest) X (FtF)
Completed: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Strengthening 1 and 2 Project
(MSME 1 and 2)
X
INDIA
Livelihoods India Initiative
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Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
NEPAL
Market Development Forum Network (MDFN) X
Nepal Market Development Practitioners Forum (MD Forum)
Promoting Climate Resilient Agriculture Nepal IFC
Rural Access Programme X
SAMARTH-Nepal Market Development Programme X
Completed: Market Access for Smallholder Farmers (MASF) X
PAKISTAN
USAID Agribusiness Project (UAP) X
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
MULTI-COUNTRY
ASOCAM X X
COMPETE Caribbean IDB X X X
GUATEMALA
Rural Value Chain Program-Horticulture X (FtF)
Rural Value Chain Program-Coffee X (FtF)
HAITI
AVANSE / Feed the Future North (FTFN) X (FtF)
Local Enterprise and Value Chain Enhancement (LEVE) X
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Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
HONDURAS
ACCESO X (FtF)
Completed: Rural Economic Diversification (RED) X
PERU
COPEME X
EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIA
ARMENIA
Markets for Meghri (M4M) Phase II X
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Market Makers / Making Markets Work for the New Generation (MMW4NG) X
GEORGIA
Market Opportunities for Livelihood Improvement (MOLI) X
KOSOVO
Enhancing Youth Employment (EYE) X
New Opportunities for Agriculture (NOA) X
GLOBAL
Business Action for Africa (BAA)
Business Call to Action (BCtA) X X
Business Fights Poverty (BFP) X
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Network or Project USAID DFID SDC SIDA World
Bank
Swiss
Contact
IDB Other
Donor Committee on Enterprise Development (DCED)
Market Systems Development Platform (working name) X X
Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI) X
SDC Employment and Income Network X
Enabling Agricultural Trade (EAT) X (FtF)
Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) X
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